Restitutions importantes (EN)

Many restitutions cases have been successfully resolved between claimants and current owners of works of art looted or sold under duress during World War II. There has been particular success since the 1998 Washington Conference on Holocaust Era Assets. The Washington Conference Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art have helped aid in the restitution process.

The Monuments Men Foundation hopes that claimants and current owners - whether museums or private individuals - will continue to seek just and fair solutions to ongoing restitution issues.

2012 – "Bouquet of Flowers" sold under duress makes its way back to rightful owner

Bouquet of Flowers in a Clay Vase from the studio of Jan Brueghel the Elder was originally owned by Viennese Jewish merchant Julius Kien. When...
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2012 – Romanino seized from Italian collection and returned to rightful owners

Girolamo Romanino’s Christ Carrying the Cross was on loan at the Mary Brogan Museum in Tallahassee, Florida, when U.S. Attorney Pamela Marsh seized...
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2011 – $44m worth Klimt returned

Painted in 1915 by Gustav Klimt, Litzlberg am Attersee was seized by the Nazis from the apartment of Amalie Redlich in a village near Vienna, Austria....
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2006 – Beautiful van Ruysdael among the 200 works of art returned by the Dutch Government to Goudstikker’s heirs

In February 2006, after years of pressing restitution claims, the Dutch government finally returned over 200 pictures to the heirs of Jacques Goudstikker, one of Amsterdam’s...
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